Les capucins et les esclaves noirs de Saint-Christophe et de la Guadeloupe dans la première moitié du XVIIe siècle
Résumé
The Capuchin friars are the first missionaries of French Lesser Antilles. In St. Kitts and Guadeloupe, they educate and supervise religiously the numerous black slaves present since the beginning of the French colonization in particular around the governors.
The expulsion of the Capuchin friars of St Kitts in 1646 following the conflict with the governor Poinsy marks a blow of stop in their influence on islands. But they certainly paved the way for the conversion of black slaves in the French Lesser Antilles. The Dominicans and the Jesuits will pursue their work with their own sensibility.